How the Jackfruit Got Its Name
One day Jack and Jackie Jackson were traveling from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Jacksonville, Texas. Their two children, Jackaby and Jacqueline were in the back seat playing Jacks. Soon they got bored and started playing Slap Jack. All of a sudden a jack rabbit crossed the road. He was being chased by a Jackalope which was being chased by a Jackel. Jack swerved to miss them and hit a hole in the road made by a man using a jack hammer. Their Jack-O-Lantern fell off the dashboard and one of the front tires went flat, so they stopped to fix it. Jack got out the jack and jacked up the front end of the car. Being a Jack-of-all trades he quickly had the tire changed. By this time Jack, Jackie, Jackaby and Jacqueline were hungry but all they had was Apple Jacks and Cracker Jacks. Then they saw a strange looking fruit growing on a tree and picked one. It was large. Jack took his jack knife from his jacket and opened it. They tasted it, and it was delicious. Then they asked one another what they should call the fruit. Jack said, “Well, we are Jack and Jackie Jackson from Jackson Hole. We were on our way to Jacksonville, with our children, Jackaby and Jacqueline, who were in the back seat playing Jacks and Slap Jack. All of a sudden we saw a jackrabbit being chased by a jackalope being chased by a jackel. We swerved and hit a hole in the road made by a jack hammer. Our jack-o-lantern fell off the dash and we had a flat. I, being a jack-of-all-trades quickly jacked up the car with the jack and changed the tire. We were hungry, but only had Apple Jacks and Cracker Jacks, and then we found this fruit and I opened it up with my jack knife from my jacket. It was delicious…..let’s call it nangka.”
